On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 17:19:15 UTC, TommiT wrote:
On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 13:42:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
... but at scope level semantics for reader should be
perfectly clear and unambiguous even if opened in notepad.
I think we have been throwing the term ambiguous around too
carelessly. Obviously code must be semantically unambiguous
when viewed in a Notepad. I don't think that's an issue with
optional parentheses - the issue is just that it's "not as easy
to read", which I don't think means the same as ambiguous (I'm
sure about all english words though). "Not as easy to read"
shouldn't sound nearly as bad as ambiguous - it's just a little
inconvenience that can be gotten rid of by using an IDE that
does semantic colorization.
"easy to read" == "I can find part of code that interests me
easily"
"unambiguous" == "I can understand semantics of code I have just
read with as little additional context as possible"
Ambiguity is mentioned often because there is one for compiler
and one for programmer. Those two are sometimes similar but
rather different in nature.
